Limari Hotel Ovalle Coquimbo

... didnt go swimming or even take our *********** but you can tell these coastal villages are very popular places for the people of Santiago in the summertime.



We kept riding north and we planned to go to a national park on the coast called Fray Jorge national park and camp for the night. We drove off of route 5 and rode down a dirt road for over an hour towards the coast on windy, sandy roads ...

... drink with strangers. Politics and world affairs are a very complicated matter. I think older folks understand that much better than us young people. It´s ok for people to disgree, just as long as it´s with respect.

On a lighter note, another much heated debate topic here is pisco. Whose is better, Peru´s or Chile´s? Who can really claim being the original pisco country? It´s like debating BBQ or basketball in NC- you´re likely to step on some toes.

... stops was about 7 hours total. La Serena is apparently a really nice beach area and I would definitely like to go back and check it out some more. From La Serena we then took another, smaller bus to Valle de Elqui, which was about 2 more hours. There we were picked up by a grizzly, long curly-haired, poncho-wearing middle-aged man named Ken (but I'm not sure if that was actually his name, but that's what we called him). At one point Angela asked Ken if ...

... katsomaan 13v Nikon (Matin serkun) jalkapallopeliä. Nytkin sinne kaikki lähdettiin huonokuntoisesta papasta lähtien. Käytiin ostamassa matkalla vähän kaljaa ja mentiin kannustamaan. Meitäkin kutsuttiin "hijoiksi" eli "lapsiksi", ja oli tosi lämmin tunnelma. Koko vkl aikana mulle ei selvinny kenen lapset oli kenen vanhempien. Kaikki oli niin yhteisöllistä. Tuntu tosi kiehtovalta ja kiinnostavalta, kun Suomessa ...

... fox in him, he had such a narrow face, long tail and wild aspect). After a rare sleep-in (bliss - who would have thought being on holiday would be such hard work) we wandered around town and watched the pelicans and sea lions in front of the fish market before taking a cheap hour cruise. It is a pretty coastline. On the Coquimbo side I like the look of the rough houses tucked into the hills. After that we ...

I flew down from Arica to Santiago, Chile the last week in June. Hadn't heard the best reports about Santiago but when I arrived it was 15 degrees. It did get a colder towards the weekend (say about 5 degrees at night-time). The city looks so pretty with the snowcapped Andes in the background. Chile is definitely much wealthier than any other country in South America and of course a bit more expensive to match ...

Well, its been a while since I last posted anything on my TravelBlog. Last week was a really busy one. I spent 3 days in the field at Tongoy (about 35 min south of Coquimbo) helping Jaun-Diego with Clement's experiments that examine native species predation on a introduced species of tunicate (Ciona sp.). Our dive team consisted of myself, Jaun-Diego, and a german student ...

We caught a night bus back to Santiago and arrived early yesterday morning to catch another bus to the coastal city of Valparaiso. With no accommodation booked, we caught a taxi and found a place pretty quickly in one of the most random places we have stayed in so far. It was massive roaming colonial style house run by an eclectic German and Chilean family who collect toy trolls, cactus's and old ...

Alex: We only had one night in Los Vilos as it was just a stop to break up the journey to Santiago but it was well worth it - odd thing is if Mum and Dad hadn't been here we would have missed it as it wasn't even in our guidebook. We didn't do much, the front was beautiful, huge waves crashing all over in lots of different direction, loads of ...

Our next destination was the pretty coastal town of La Serena which had some nice colonial buildings and a lovely beach. This part of Chile is one of the best places in the world to stargaze so we went to Mamalluca observatory and got to see the moon up really close through a powerful telescope as well as the stars that make up Orion's Belt, the Seven Sisters and some nebulas. Earlier in the night we also got to see Venus which was just sticking up over the horizon.